Alliances of pharmacists & GPs; opportunities to pressure for removal of useless "remedies"?

She reports that this initiative focuses on improving use of medicines through reducing wastage.

Perhaps memoranda of this kind might also be a means that GPs could ask that the ’remedies’ that pharmacists’ offer be consistent with practices they support.

Should the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners discourage, or even disallow, prescription services from pharmacies whose other remedies or services are inconsistent with the medical practices the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners supports?

I raise this a question to invite discussion. Examples of remedies that would be inconsistent with general medical practice would include homeopathy (see links below) and many other ’natural health’ ’remedies’.

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Certainly I’m constantly bemused (& concerned) at the line-up of CAM-type products on the shelves of my local pharmacist. It would be great if the RNZCGP would move on that (but I’m not holding my breath).

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